What I Miss

I miss...

• Sleeping in on weekends.


• Staying up late to watch movies or have sex.


• Breakfast in bed.


• Listening to grown-up music.


• Having the weekend to myself, with no obligations to be anywhere.


• Evenings out with friends.


• Afternoon naps (mine and the kids).


• Time to read.


• Time to draw, just for fun.


• Crayons.


• Magic markers.


• Trips to the craft store.


• Trips to the fabric store.


• Sewing.


• Costuming.


• Being Xena Wariror Milkmaid.


• Watching Xena Warrior Princess (but only the first three seasons).


• Regular workouts at the gym.


• Long hot baths with bath oil and fancy body scrubs and candles and aroma therapy.


• Long hair.


• Red hair.


• My pre-baby body, especially the knees.


• Feeling relaxed and well-rested.


• Fat, happy, sleepy babies curled up in my arms.


• My two cats who passed away in the last two years.

I don't miss...

• Wondering if I'll ever get pregnant.


• Being single and living on my own.


• Working at a 'real' job.


• A big paycheck.


• Not knowing what I want to do with my life.


• College.


• The Army Reserves.


• The Army Physical Fitness Test.


• Wearing a uniform.


• Wearing a business suit.


• My twenties.


• My thirties.


• My teens.


• My acne.


• My braces.


• The ass-holes who tried to make life miserable for me in school.


• School in general.


• Any of my ex-boyfriends.

I turn 40 in a couple of weeks. There's a lot of things I miss these days. Looking over my list, I realize I can fix most of those, if I want. Then there are the things I don't miss. I'm glad I've moved along with my life and left those things behind.

What do you miss from your younger days? What are you glad you left behind?.

Episode 25 - This Is My Life!

This is mostly an update on work, but...

Yes, this has been my life the last several weeks. Since November, I have struggled to survive the holidays, a convention (9 panels, 1 reading, an all-day author table!!), final edits on my new book Future Perfect, creating the cover art for said book, getting set up to join the "Oh Get A Grip" group blog (read us - we're fun!!), keeping up with the Heat Flash erotica podcast which now airs on Thursdays at 8PM on Radio Dentata (streaming internet radio with teeth!!), clean the house, feed the kids, help the Princess with her homework, potty train Pixie, and somehow find a few moments to have sex with my husband.

Yeah, it's been a little busy.

Things are starting to slow down a bit. I got my last major deadline out the door on Friday. I submitted a short story to Alessia Brio's Coming Together: Al Fresco, and regardless of whether or not I make it into this volume, I highly encourage everyone to buy a copy of any of the Coming Together books (I do have a story in Coming Together: With Pride, if you're interested). Coming Together is a charity anthology and all the proceeds go to the organization of choice for each volume. It's doing good while being bad, and ya gotta love that.

So this week's cartoon is just a glimpse into what's been going on at la casa de Cynical Woman. I'm tired, but things are evening out and I hope to be back on some sort of regular schedule in the next couple of weeks. I'll be at the Farpoint science fiction convention on Valentine's Day weekend, the same weekend as the release of Future Perfect, so I will be gearing up for that, getting promo ready and preparing for the panels I'm on (only six this time, I believe). Otherwise, I'll be turning my attention back to the podcast and this cartoon, putting in a little more time on my two favorite projects for a while. Hopefully, I'll have another cartoon ready within the week. See ya then!